Lakeway Realty Bellingham accused of Code Busting

WANTS TO BUILD ROOMING HOUSES IN ESTABLISHED RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD

"Without a hint of embarassment at having been caught with their hand in the rental-unit cookie jar, the Hansens, through their attorneys, demanded in high dudgeon the immediate issuance of building permits for five-bedroom plus two bonus room "homes.""  (Dick Conoboy, The Hansen’s Giant Rental Megaplex - Part 2, Northwest Citizen, 4 Aug 2015, http://www.nwcitizen.com/entry/hansen-iron-st.-rental-megaplex-part-ii)

NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION SAW A RUSE

"The owner's claim that these homes are five bedrooms plus two bonus rooms is also a ruse to circumvent parking requirements. The houses had already been advertised for rent to seven (or more?) individual tenants on craigslist earlier this year." (Dick Conoboy, The Hansen’s Giant Rental Megaplex - Part 2, Northwest Citizen, 4 Aug 2015, http://www.nwcitizen.com/entry/hansen-iron-st.-rental-megaplex-part-ii)

IT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY LEGAL, BUT IT WOULD BE COMPLETELY PROFITABLE

"Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam's error"  (Jude 1:11 NIV, Holy Bible):

PLOT TO CHANGE THE NEIGHBORHOOD'S CHARACTER

"We are witnessing nothing less than an attempt at code-busting which will destroy single family zoning. This is a direct violation of the Bellingham Municipal Code (BMC) regarding the creation of rooming houses in single family neighborhoods.

THE CITY SAW THROUGH THEIR SCHEME

Initially, the city wrote to the Hansens saying the permits would be contingent on the owner's agreement to separate covenants on the property that would preclude turning the megaplexes into rooming houses." (Dick Conoboy, The Hansen’s Giant Rental Megaplex - Part 2, Northwest Citizen, 4 Aug 2015, http://www.nwcitizen.com/entry/hansen-iron-st.-rental-megaplex-part-ii)

POPULAR FORCES MOBILIZE

"On May 26th, the York Neighborhood Association board submitted a seven page letter to our current planning director, Rick Sepler, about the "seven-actual bedrooms" illegal use intention.

MASSIVE COMMUNITY OPPOSITION

They then initiated a petition campaign and within three weeks had collected 250 signatures, which included 100 collected door-to-door by Sehome residents in that neighborhood. Then, on July 27th they turned in more, bringing the total to 300."    (Dick Conoboy, The Hansen’s Giant Rental Megaplex - Part 2, Northwest Citizen, 4 Aug 2015, http://www.nwcitizen.com/entry/hansen-iron-st.-rental-megaplex-part-ii)

But Jon Hansen "understands the art of negotiating" (Todd Davis Testimonial, http://www.bellinghamdreamhome.com/) -- what he really wants.

HE DIDN'T REALLY NEED THE PROJECT IN THE SEHOME NEIGHBORHOOD

Sure there's the money, of which he has a heap:  "And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.  And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry." (Luke 12:17-19, Holy Bible)

"Merry" means "full of cheerfulness or gaiety; joyous in disposition or spirit".  http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/merry  And this man is really full of "gaiety"?    Absolutely.  (see graphic at right)

Those Bellingham neighborhood activists apparently have something against his orientation.

SO HE PUTS ON AN ACT

A female wife.  Some children.  A pretty elaborate cover story.

And she puts up with this?

"I've not met a better negotiator." (Tony Pechthalt Testimonial, http://www.bellinghamdreamhome.com/)  She gets a liberal allowance for clothes, spa visits, and a prestigious credit card.

While Jon gets to live one life in Bellingham, and quite another in Chicago, where his all-American good looks and polished negotiating skills have earned him many friends in quite different circles.


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